Representing a bold alternative to the divisions in modern Protestant life, the United Church of Christ has attempted to model the ecumenical healing of the scandalous ruptures in the Christian fabric.

Elected general minister and president of the United Church of Christ in 1999, Thomas served for the next decade as the convener of the Collegium of Officers of the UCC as well as the church's principal spokesperson on theological and public issues and official representative in ecumenical and interfaith relations.

It is the Sunday after CBS and NBC refused to air a commercial by the United Church of Christ that touted the church's proud welcome to all worshippers and depicted gays and others being turned away by bouncers in front of another church.

These days, a very few lesbian and gay pastors - in the United Church of Christ, Metropolitan Community Church and some Reform Jewish synagogues - have their denominations' blessing to be openly gay without requiring celibacy.

This lectionary is actually based on the Roman lectionary and is now being used by the Presbyterian Church, United Methodist Church, Reformed Church of America, United Church of Christ, various churches of the Anglican communion around the world, and a number of other churches.

ATLANTA -- A United Church of Christ (UCC) resolution demanding that Israel dismantle its anti-terrorism fence "is functionally antisemitic, which devalues the lives of the citizens of the Jewish state," charged Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Associate Dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, of Los Angeles.

24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The United Church of Christ is celebrating a landmark decision by the Federal Communications Commission, which has ruled in favor of the church's filed complaint that Univision, the nation's largest Hispanic television network, is not serving the educational programming needs of children.

Joining Foo and Bernard in denouncing the agreement were representatives of these other human-rights monitors: Global Exchange, Campaign for Labor Rights, Vietnam Labor Watch, Press for Change, Justice: Do It Nike and United Church of Christ.

Smoking is detrimental to health not only for smokers, but for anybody around smokers," proclaimed rally speaker Reverend Myron Cloyd, Pilgrim Congregational United Church of Christ pastor and vice-chair of the Houston Housing Authority Board of Commissioners.

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